This Weekend’s Success!

 

I have started grocery shopping with my little girl; since G’s birth, its been sort of our mommy daughter time.   I love it; I love letting her pick things out, I love it when she tells me to shake shake the cart, I love it when she carries the melon.  Yep, that’s right…she loves to hold the melon!  This Sunday, when it was her turn to pick out a fruit, she could have picked an orange melon, a green melon, or pears.  She picked the green melon (whew; I’m SO glad she didn’t pick the orange one…cantaloupe...ugh!), and I was able to find a smallish toddler sized one.  She held it with her in the cart for the rest of the trip and even carried it inside (in that kind of, sort of toddler way).

 

Now I had to hold up my end of the bargain.  Normally, when I need to chop up something or containerize it or some other such activity, the said item will languish on the counter for days until it spoils and it will thus be transferred to the garbage.  Not this time!!!  Before all the dry goods were stashed away, I pulled out a cutting board and a HUGE knife and went to work.  The melon was super soft and cut so easily (one of my many fears  - getting the knife stuck in the melon, then ripping it out uncontrollably and stabbing myself in the head).  I had some on a plate in no time for E and the rest in a container and in the fridge!  We’ll have melon for days!!!  Well, a couple days, anyway.  E must have eaten half of it already between lunch and dinner!

 

So here are my successes from this adventure :

1.        E loves fruit and picking it out herself makes it even more awesome!

2.       Cutting the melon and putting it away pronto reduced spoilage and gave my family a healthy snack option.

3.       I was a melon- DOER!!!!